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OzowAgentic AI Engineer
This full-time, on-site role in Cape Town is for an Agentic AI Engineer at Ozow, a South African fintech focused on digital payments. The engineer builds…
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This full-time, on-site role in Cape Town is for an Agentic AI Engineer at Ozow, a South African fintech focused on digital payments. The engineer builds and tests AI agents meant to take over repetitive work in operations, customer support, fraud checks, risk reviews and engineering, working alongside senior engineers on production-grade components. Responsibilities include documenting how each agent behaves and where humans sign off, handling personal and financial data…
Job Description
This full-time, on-site role in Cape Town is for an Agentic AI Engineer at Ozow, a South African fintech focused on digital payments. The engineer builds and tests AI agents meant to take over repetitive work in operations, customer support, fraud checks, risk reviews and engineering, working alongside senior engineers on production-grade components.
Responsibilities include documenting how each agent behaves and where humans sign off, handling personal and financial data under POPIA, and watching agents in production. The posting suits an engineer with solid Python skills, REST API experience and practical use of one large language model API.
Responsibilities
- Within the first half year, deliver one agent capability live, backed by evaluation tests
- Build agent flows using tool invocation, RAG-style lookup and chained tasks
- Wire agents into internal services and datasets using narrowly scoped, secure links
- Learn each supported process by talking with product, ops and risk staff
Requirements
- Formal study in computing or engineering, or hands-on experience that matches it
- Solid Python skills, plus working familiarity with REST services and JSON payloads
- Practical use of one large language model API, shown in a project or on the job
- Some familiarity with RAG pipelines, vector embeddings and prompt writing, plus Git and Docker
Qualifications
- Familiarity with an agent library like LangGraph or CrewAI, or with MCP
- AWS experience, plus C# or .NET and SQL
- Interest in payments, fraud prevention or financial services
- A careful approach to protecting personal and financial data
Core Skills
Benefits
- Subsidized medical aid, group risk cover and generous yearly leave for South Africa-based staff
- Learning and development opportunities with a mentorship programme
- Employee assistance programme and community initiatives
- Healthy meals, on-site coffee and regular team get-togethers
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Where is the role located?
The listing places the role on-site in Cape Town, South Africa.
What does the hiring process involve?
The posting describes psychometric and technical assessments, plus meetings with HR staff, the hiring manager and senior leaders.
What education is expected?
The listing names a degree in computing or engineering, or equivalent practical experience, along with solid Python.
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